New process cuts manufacturing time, while improving product performance

Our continual drive for improvement helped us recognize how an off-line manufacturing process we call “wafer splicing” could help our appliance customers cut costs and improve product performance. Instead of using “hot-butt splicing” and the equivalent of SuperGlue to bond two extruded parts together, our wafer splicing process vulcanized the parts together using a thin slice of heated rubber.

More than just improving product integrity through a much stronger bond, this new process cut manufacturing time in half and, therefore, saved more than a half-million dollars – not to mention dramatically enhanced the overall aesthetics of the finished product. And, when you’re talking about a door seal for a top-of-the-line clothes dryer, that could be the difference between a satisfied customer and one that’s all wet.

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